Firefox-4.0 was released a few short months ago and already Firefox-5.0 is next, with Firefox-6.0 due for release in Sept.2011, with Firefox-7.0 hot on it's heels.

**Firefox-5.0 was just released as 'stable' by Mozilla (yesterday) ... and has already hit the repros.

And me, always wanting to be on the 'cutting edge' of Open Source ... I have just installed Firefox-6.0 Aurora A2 from the Launchpad.net/mozilla PPA's. (remember PPA's work with Ubuntu-based distros and do not work with Debian/LMDE)

Yes, Aurora is now 7.0a, i.e Firefox 7 Alpha, and Nightly (you can try/use it also if you are brave enough) is the future Firefox 8... A Beta of Firefox 6 is released. But I don't see the need for Aurora packages. You just need to download it from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/, extract it somewhere in your /home and click on the file named "firefox" which is inside the folder created during decompression. You can make a shortcut on your desktop, in your menu or your panel if you want/like. Aurora updates itself automatically, if you check this option in the Preferences, or by hand with a click on "Look for updates" in the window "About Aurora" in the Help menu. There is an update every day. And Aurora will find and use your current Firefox profile in your system, in your /home. Really, a distribution package, whatever the distrib, a PPA or other is absolutely useless...

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I'd been using firefox 5 for some time and decided i'd give 7 a try.. I now have Aurora installed on my computer via the PPA.. Problem is it won't start (just hangs at start then) and I am unable to remove it.. I tried uninstalling from the software manager, synaptic and the command line. I removed the Aurora PPA and replaced it with the firefox PPA. All attempts to remove start and finish the same way.. Firefox 7XXXX will be removed and songbird installed. Doesn't happen, I'm stuck with firefox 7. In synaptic I select to completely remove firefox and nothing happens. From command line, I'm told firefox is not installed but the brown aurora icon is there and will not work.

Exactly. When you do not want to use Aurora and you want to delete it, you just have to delete the folder that the archive created during decompression in your /home, and the archive itself. Oh and it's the same, the same procedure, to use and remove Nightly, if you're brave enough to try/use it, but to download it, it's here: http://nightly.mozilla.org/ Currently, Nightly is 8.0a1 and you have it just in English. At the contrary, Aurora can be downloading in all languages.

K.I.S.S. ===> "Keep It Simple, Stupid""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Albert Einstein)

Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 6 in my LM9 it occasionally will not terminate firefox-bin when I exit the program. The next time I try to start firefox it gives an error message that says "firefox-bin is still running" and will not allow firefox to start until I manually kill the process. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

lwrver wrote:Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 6 in my LM9 it occasionally will not terminate firefox-bin when I exit the program. The next time I try to start firefox it gives an error message that says "firefox-bin is still running" and will not allow firefox to start until I manually kill the process. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

Well, it's Firefox. I have had this "problem" in any Firefox versions... from time to time. If this was the only "problem" with Firefox we would happy.

You have no need for a terminal for exiting the process. Just open your process monitor, depending on the desktop used it can have a different name, and right-click on the Firefox process then choose kill. Done.

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